[pchelpers] News:Hackers quickly move to exploit Bhutto assassination

Attackers dupe users with fake codec, launch drive-by attacks
Gregg Keizer


December 28, 2007  (Computerworld) -- Within hours of yesterday's
assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware
makers exploited the breaking news to dupe users into downloading attack
code, security researchers said Friday.

Searches for news about Bhutto's killing and the ensuing chaos in
Pakistan listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said
analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc.

For instance, WebSense found such a site simply by using "benazir" to
search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on
Blogger.com, Google Inc.'s blog service, that were spreading the fake
codec.

More here:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054479&intsrc=hm_list
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